This One Chart Explains Why The US Military Is Such A Dominant Global Force.

[thesolar65]

The single most important contributor to the U.S.'s military dominance is the country's powerful navy, which gives America the ability to project hard power just about anywhere in the world.
And this ability owes a lot to the Navy's unparalleled fleet of aircraft carriers.

The U.S. has 19 carriers. The rest of the world has only 12 aircraft carriers combined. The U.S. carriers are also larger and more technically advanced than any other country's.

China's sole carrier, for instance, is a retrofitted Soviet-era Ukrainian carrier that was originally supposed to be an off-shore casino.

Our friends at GlobalSecurity.org created a chart that captures not just the scope, but the size of the U.S. aircraft carriers in comparison to the rest of the world. It's pretty stark, and gives an idea of just how much of a gap in conventional military power there is between the U.S. and everyone else.

This One Chart Explains Why The US Military Is Such A Dominant Global Force | Business Insider India

 

[SirHatesALot]

Amrika badavala Empire

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

And Japan even back in the 1940's... had over 11 aircraft carriers. That was over seventy years ago.

Yet China only just got our very first "training" carrier in 2012.

What warmongers we are!

It's not like we couldn't afford more, right? We have more currency reserves than the rest of the world combined, our defence spending makes up only about 1-2% of our GDP and only about 5% of our government budget, less than every other major power.

 

[thesolar65]

And Japan even back in the 1940's... had over 11 aircraft carriers. That was over seventy years ago.

Yet China only just got our very first "training" carrier in 2012.

What warmongers we are!

It's not like we couldn't afford more, right? We have more currency reserves than the rest of the world combined, our defence spending makes up only about 1-2% of our GDP and only about 5% of our government budget, less than every other major power.

My point is that from time immemorial it has been seen that "whoever dominates the sea, dominates the world"!!

And yes you are one hell of a "Warmonger"... and the below are not....

Pentagon Successfully Tests First Small-Caliber, Self-Guided Bullets [VIDEO] - Yahoo News

 

[Zhukov]

So even varyag is smaller then nimitz class?

 

[Skull and Bones]

Imagine, each and every of those amphibious assault ships can support F-35 and work as a full time carrier.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Not the full picture.
If the US didn't have a boatload of bases around the world these carriers really would mean nothing. The Navy's job is to deny enemy ships easy transit of the world's oceans to support their forces. The Navy planes also provide a way of denying easy air travel over the world's oceans. Basically hem them into their own borders.

The US has the ability to resupply its forces at will without flying/shipping things to the other side of the planet.
The Navy can pull into bases around the world, resupply, and head back out.
US military fighter jets can fly loops around the planet non-stop because when they are running low on fuel some overseas based tanker can meet them in the air to refuel.
The army has equipment scattered in depots all over the world. When fighting in Afghanistan/Iraq instead of creating some big huge local ammo pile that is a prime target they can stock up in some place offshore out of harms way and resupply as needed.
I bet no B-52, B-1, or B-2 used in Iraq/Afghanistan ever actually landed or took off there. We can keep them on a safe base outside of the battle zone.

The US can fly surveillance aircraft in circles around the perimeters of continents 24 hours a day because they can be refueled.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

So even varyag is smaller then nimitz class?

 

[thesolar65]

Not the full picture.
If the US didn't have a boatload of bases around the world these carriers really would mean nothing. The Navy's job is to deny enemy ships easy transit of the world's oceans to support their forces. The Navy planes also provide a way of denying easy air travel over the world's oceans. Basically hem them into their own borders.

The US has the ability to resupply its forces at will without flying/shipping things to the other side of the planet.
The Navy can pull into bases around the world, resupply, and head back out.
US military fighter jets can fly loops around the planet non-stop because when they are running low on fuel some overseas based tanker can meet them in the air to refuel.
The army has equipment scattered in depots all over the world. When fighting in Afghanistan/Iraq instead of creating some big huge local ammo pile that is a prime target they can stock up in some place offshore out of harms way and resupply as needed.
I bet no B-52, B-1, or B-2 used in Iraq/Afghanistan ever actually landed or took off there. We can keep them on a safe base outside of the battle zone.

The US can fly surveillance aircraft in circles around the perimeters of continents 24 hours a day because they can be refueled.

Are they also working on a design of submersible AC as some commentators pointed out in Yahoo news?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Are they also working on a design of submersible AC as some commentators pointed out in Yahoo news?

Maybe for drones but I highly doubt they'd waste energy for manned ones.

That news about fuel from seawater is interesting. I can see what maybe they are trying to do.
They could create unmanned stealth submarines that are perpetually at sea that are used to refuel and rearm drones. With the fuel issue solved the next question is getting the fuel and arms to the drone using some kind of refueler that ferries between the two. Or if the fuel from seawater tech becomes good enough the refueler perpetually stays airborne and flies low to the surface with a hose to suck up more water as needed.

For now this is the direction aircraft carriers are headed

 

[Nike]

They had more than 64 Aegis capable Destroyer ships and 22 large Cruiser of Ticonderoga class, not to mention their LPD's, SSN and SSBN fleets.

 

[liall]

And Japan even back in the 1940's... had over 11 aircraft carriers. That was over seventy years ago.

Yet China only just got our very first "training" carrier in 2012.

What warmongers we are!

It's not like we couldn't afford more, right? We have more currency reserves than the rest of the world combined, our defence spending makes up only about 1-2% of our GDP and only about 5% of our government budget, less than every other major power.

yea but I do not see your country trying to make peace like the Buddhists many of you are supposed to be You guys created problem in North Area look what happened to them. But I do hope of peace at our borders. Would work great for trade between two nations.

 

[viper46]

Imagine, each and every of those amphibious assault ships can support F-35 and work as a full time carrier.

imagination or supposition what ever .. USA get raped in Afghanistan

 

[SekrutYakhni]

imagination or supposition what ever .. USA get raped in Afghanistan

If Amrika was really close to defeat...They would have used every weapon in their arsenal. I mean every weapon. Including nukes.

It was not their strategy.

As long as they have kinks and motherlands in those countries and bomb the people every few decades...business as usual. We don't want a non-hegemonic name inventing anything. (Please discount some pumped up queens).

You understand?

 

[VCheng]

Not the full picture.
If the US didn't have a boatload of bases around the world these carriers really would mean nothing. The Navy's job is to deny enemy ships easy transit of the world's oceans to support their forces. The Navy planes also provide a way of denying easy air travel over the world's oceans. Basically hem them into their own borders.

The US has the ability to resupply its forces at will without flying/shipping things to the other side of the planet.
The Navy can pull into bases around the world, resupply, and head back out.
US military fighter jets can fly loops around the planet non-stop because when they are running low on fuel some overseas based tanker can meet them in the air to refuel.
The army has equipment scattered in depots all over the world. When fighting in Afghanistan/Iraq instead of creating some big huge local ammo pile that is a prime target they can stock up in some place offshore out of harms way and resupply as needed.
I bet no B-52, B-1, or B-2 used in Iraq/Afghanistan ever actually landed or took off there. We can keep them on a safe base outside of the battle zone.

The US can fly surveillance aircraft in circles around the perimeters of continents 24 hours a day because they can be refueled.

Don't forget the satellites.